Dutton
Beyond the Bright Sea
In 1913, a baby is born. A few hours later, the infant is placed in a boat and set to…
Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth
Editors' choice
We’ve all heard of John Wilkes Booth, the actor who assassinated President Lincoln, but who knows much about Booth beyond…
The Last Ranch
Kevin Kearney, the protagonist of a successful detective series, has roots that go deep in the New Mexican past, as…
The Dollhouse
1952. When 17-year-old Darby McLaughlin moves from Defiance, Ohio to New York to take a secretarial course, she quickly falls…
Wolf Hollow
In western Pennsylvania during WWII, there was an area in between farmlands called Wolf Hollow. The name, coined several generations…
Christmas Bells
In 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, still reeling from a personal tragedy and living amid the national tragedy of the Civil…
The Courtesan
European and Japanese powers are vying for Chinese trade and even takeover in the late 1800s. Meanwhile, seven-year-old Jinhua’s peaceful…
Let Me Die in His Footsteps
Roy’s newest novel, set in rural Kentucky, tells Sarah Crowley’s story, first with her sister Juna in 1936, and then…
The Alphabet House
Jussi Adler-Olsen has taken a break from his popular Department Q series and brought us a deeply researched, hauntingly psychological…
Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule
When Ulysses S. Grant courted Miss Julia Dent from a Missouri slave-owning family, he was fresh from West Point and…
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